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Ballylennon Presbyterian Church — LISTANNAGH

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Ballylennon Presbyterian Church — LISTANNAGH
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Freestanding five-bay single-storey Presbyterian church, dated 1831 and refurbished c. 1990. Pitched natural purple slate roof with projecting eaves course, raised ashlar copings to gable ends (north and south), stone or clay ridge tiles, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with raised smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners. Cut stone date stone (on rectangular plan with raised surround) to the north elevation over doorway reading ‘A.D. 1831’. Pointed-arched window openings having raised smooth rendered surrounds, concrete sills, replacement timber Y-tracery windows with leaded coloured glass, and with moulded rendered hoodmouldings over. Leaded stained glass windows to openings to the south gable end. Central round-headed door opening to the north elevation having moulded smooth render architraved surround, plinth blocks to base, replacement timber panelled door, and with spoked fanlight over. Set back from road in own grounds to the north-east of Raphoe and to the north of Ballindrait. Detached three-bay single-storey former Sunday school adjacent to the north-east having pitched artificial slate roof, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window openings with replacement timber casement windows, and square-headed doorways with replacement timber doors. Graveyard to south and west containing gravemarkers of mainly twentieth century date. Roughcast rendered boundary walls to site; roughcast rendered boundary walls to road-frontage to the north having smooth rendered piers (on square-plan), and with decorative cast-iron railings over. Gateway to the north of site comprising a pair of smooth rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron gates with spear finials over.

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